Category Archives: Society

Eleven expensive cars were lined up to get body work done at a repair shop in Jinan, Shandong province on July 4. All bore vulgar words scratched into their paint. The owners were, understandably, furious. A Jinan TV program News Community reviewed surveillance tapes...

When the Wushan Court of Chongqing heard the case of Ma Panyan and Chen Xueshen’s divorce on April 6, it brought the issue of “child brides” screaming back to public attention. While the legal ages for men and women to marry in China are...

A millennial explores the world of internet fame A young woman from the Central Academy of Drama made headlines in May by attracting 12 million yuan in investment funds. By the end of the month, everyone had heard of Papi Jiang. Papi Jiang started...

Foreign university graduates in China are no longer scarce, they are like thousands of little sea turtles- a popular term in China referring to abroad returners, climbing back to the motherland’s shore. According to China Studying Abroad Returners Job Search Blue Book 2015, the...

All 137 tigers remaining in Thailand’s infamous “tiger temple” are being removed by Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation. The relocation comes despite the objection of the abbot and monks. The first five tigers were removed overnight by wildlife officials on...

Xi Liya, 27, is a hard-working woman with a promising career path. For a woman in her situation, single marital status is increasingly common in modern China. Even if her parents think otherwise. Unshakeable conventional wisdom demands that women must marry before the age...

Wang Kaixin, an Internet entrepreneur, dropped out of high school at the age of 16. Less than a year later, she had secured a 10-million-yuan investment in her startup Shenqibuy. In addition to the monetary awards, Wang was received by the vice-chairman of the...

An SF Express driver surnamed Feng was struck by a car that was going in reverse while delivering packages in Dongcheng on April 17. While it’s hardly the first time a deliveryman was involved in an accident, it was one of the first times...

Only three months ago, Baidu was railroaded by commentators for selling its hemophilia support forum to a medical consultancy in Xi’an, Shaanxi province. Now its ad policy may have resulted in a premature death. Wei Zexi, a 21-year-old student of computer science at Xidian...

Medical service reform has become a perennial topic during the government’s Two Sessions, and this year is no exception. In a government work report released by Premier Li Keqiang, relevant governmental departments are being urged to push forward a medical service classification system in...

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